sheaspina
12-02-2014, 05:23 PM
The missus & I recently bought a house, & after some settle in time I'm looking to get back into some breeding. Our house is on well water, which generally appears to be rather decent for discus. TDS is around 58 w/ ph @ 5.8. The issue is there is about 5-10ppm nitrates (we're in a farming valley east of Seattle w/ common well depths at 30-60ft....so it's not unexpected).
The nitrates is low enough it doesn't seem to bother my other fish, but especially when it comes time to raise batches of fry, I don't want my w/c's starting with nitrates in the "clean" water. For the time being, I'm just going to keep all my discus, young or old, on remin'd ro, but I was wondering if there are alternatives for removing nitrates from the well water? Judging from past experience, things escalate to changing a couple hundred gallons per day pretty quickly, & I imagine having to produce that much ro could be quite tedious.
The nitrates is low enough it doesn't seem to bother my other fish, but especially when it comes time to raise batches of fry, I don't want my w/c's starting with nitrates in the "clean" water. For the time being, I'm just going to keep all my discus, young or old, on remin'd ro, but I was wondering if there are alternatives for removing nitrates from the well water? Judging from past experience, things escalate to changing a couple hundred gallons per day pretty quickly, & I imagine having to produce that much ro could be quite tedious.